Marie Antoinette The Woman And The Queen

Author : Caroline Weber
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429936477

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Queen of Fashion by Caroline Weber Pdf

In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette's bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes. In Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber shows how Marie Antoinette developed her reputation for fashionable excess, and explains through lively, illuminating new research the political controversies that her clothing provoked. Weber surveys Marie Antoinette's "Revolution in Dress," covering each phase of the queen's tumultuous life, beginning with the young girl, struggling to survive Versailles's rigid traditions of royal glamour (twelve-foot-wide hoopskirts, whalebone corsets that crushed her organs). As queen, Marie Antoinette used stunning, often extreme costumes to project an image of power and wage war against her enemies. Gradually, however, she began to lose her hold on the French when she started to adopt "unqueenly" outfits (the provocative chemise) that, surprisingly, would be adopted by the revolutionaries who executed her. Weber's queen is sublime, human, and surprising: a sometimes courageous monarch unwilling to allow others to determine her destiny. The paradox of her tragic story, according to Weber, is that fashion—the vehicle she used to secure her triumphs—was also the means of her undoing. Weber's book is not only a stylish and original addition to Marie Antoinette scholarship, but also a moving, revelatory reinterpretation of one of history's most controversial figures.

Author : Sarah Tytler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:316530830

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Marie Antoinette, the Woman and Queen by Sarah Tytler Pdf

Author : Sarah Tytler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Queens
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024272601

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Marie Antoinette by Sarah Tytler Pdf

Author : Sarah Tytler
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385323407

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Marie Antoinette. The Woman and the Queen by Sarah Tytler Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781775411581

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Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette by Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan Pdf

Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette is an inside look into the life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, written by her First Lady in Waiting Madame Campan. Born in 1755 and married to Louis XVI of France at the age of 14, Antoinette was renowned for her fabled excesses. She was condemned for treason in 1793 at the zenith of the French Revolution, forfeiting her life to the razor-edge of a guillotine.

Author : Chantal Thomas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015043761769

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The Wicked Queen by Chantal Thomas Pdf

Chantal Thomas presents the history of the mythification of one of the most infamous queens in all history, whose execution still fascinates us today. In The Wicked Queen, Chantal Thomas presents the history of the mythification of one of the most infamous queens in all history, whose execution still fascinates us today. Almost as soon as Marie-Antoinette, archduchess of Austria, was brought to France as the bride of Louis XVI in 1771, she was smothered in images. In a monarchy increasingly under assault, the charm and horror of her feminine body and her political power as a foreign intruder turned Marie-Antoinette into an alien other. Marie-Antoinette's mythification, argues Thomas, must be interpreted as the misogynist demonization of women's power and authority in revolutionary France.In a series of pamphlets written from the 1770s until her death in 1793, Marie-Antoinette is portrayed as a spendthrift, a libertine, an orgiastic lesbian, and a poisoner and infant murderess. In her analyses of these pamphlets, seven of which appear here in translation for the first time, Thomas reconstructs how the mounting hallucinatory and libelous discourse culminated in the inevitable destruction of what had become the counterrevolutionary symbol par excellence. The Wicked Queen exposes the elaborate process by which the myth of Marie-Antoinette emerged as a crucial element in the successful staging of the French Revolution.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1377919013

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Marie Antoinette: The Woman and the Queen by Anonymous Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Henrietta Keddie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590555860

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Marie Antoinette, the woman and queen, by Sarah Tytler. (The new Plutarch). by Henrietta Keddie Pdf

Author : Sarah Tytler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1293416355

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Marie Antoinette by Sarah Tytler Pdf

Author : Heather Schwartz
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433383793

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Marie Antoinette: Controversial Queen of France by Heather Schwartz Pdf

This fascinating biography details the fascinating life of the last Queen of France, Marie Antoinette. Readers will learn about her arranged marriage to King Louis XVI, life at the Palace of Versailles, what she did to become such a controversial queen, and the royal family's stay at the Tuileries Palace. The detailed images, illustrations, interesting facts, and supportive text work in conjunction with the accessible glossary and index to give readers the tools they need to better understand the content and vocabulary. This book also includes an in-class writing activity to further students' understanding of Marie Antoinette's life.

Author : Stefan Zweig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Queens
ISBN : UCAL:B4532706

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Marie Antoinette by Stefan Zweig Pdf

Stefan Zweig's "Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman" is a dramatic account of the guillotine's most famous victim, from the time when as a fourteen-year-old she took Versailles by storm, to her frustrations with her aloof husband, her passionate love affair with the Swedish Count von Fersen, and ultimately to the chaos of the French Revolution and the savagery of the Terror.

Author : Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : France
ISBN : UCAL:B3326768

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Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette by Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Pdf

Author : Henrietta Keddie
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1377756661

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Marie Antoinette, the Woman and Queen, by Sarah Tytler. (The New Plutarch) by Henrietta Keddie Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Dena Goodman,Thomas E. Kaiser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136704963

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Marie Antoinette by Dena Goodman,Thomas E. Kaiser Pdf

Marie-Antoinette is one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in all of French history. This volume explores the many struggles by various individuals and groups to put right Marie's identity, and it simultaneously links these struggles to larger destabilizations in social, political and gender systems in France. Looking at how Marie was represented in politics, art, literature and journalism, the contributors to this volume reveal how crucial political and cultural contexts were enacted "on the body of the queen" and on the complex identity of Marie. Taken together, these essays suggest that it is precisely because she came to represent the contradictions in the social, political and gender systems of her era, that Marie remains such an important historical figure.

Author : John Hardman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300249033

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Marie-Antoinette by John Hardman Pdf

This “wonderfully gripping biography” digs beneath the famous legend to present a nuanced and revealing portrait of a serious-mined monarch (Allan Massie, Wall Street Journal). As the last Queen of France before the French Revolution, Marie-Antoinette was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, while today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. But who was she really? In this new account, John Hardman redresses the balance and sheds fresh light on her story. Hardman shows how Marie-Antoinette played a significant but misunderstood role in the crisis of the monarchy. Drawing on new sources, he describes how she refused to prioritize the aggressive foreign policy of her mother, bravely took over the helm from her faltering husband, and, when revolution broke out, worked closely with repentant radicals to give the constitutional monarchy a fighting chance. For the first time, Hardman demonstrates exactly what influence Marie-Antoinette had and when and how she exerted it. Named a 2020 Book of the Year by The Spectator